Tristan Louth-Robins
Astonishing. One of the most accomplished works he's done..and that's saying something. The whole work feels like drifting in and out of REM sleep. The passage with the deft layering of footsteps/space..remarkable. Everywhere else, the influence of Ferrari, Paremgiani, et. al abounds. Anyone serious about sound design and electroacoustic composition needs to hear this (in high resolution!)
alain.proust
With the entanglement and interaction of noise and musical tone, we seem to have traveled through the jungle infested by ghosts, and witnessed a new universe being reborn in this strange chaos and harmony. Through this recording, Jim O’Rourke reconstructed the order of sound in a sense.
Shutting Down Here is a special work. Symbolically, it covers a period of thirty years, between two visits by Jim O'Rourke to the GRM, the first, as a young man fascinated by the institution and his repertoire, the second, as an accomplished musician, influential and imbued with an aura of mystery. Shutting Down Here is a piece shaped like an universe, a heterogeneous world in which collides the multiple musical facets of Jim O'Rourke: instrumental writing, field recordings, electronic textures and cybernetic becomings, dynamic spaces, harmonic spaces, silent spans . This variety of approach, strangely, does not in any way weaken the coherence of the whole and this is the talent of Jim O'Rourke, a talent, properly speaking, of composition, where all the sound elements compete and participate to stakes that exceed them and of a common destiny, that is to say of an apparition.
Released in association with Editions Mego.
Coordination GRM: François Bonnet, Jules Négrier
Executive Production: Peter Rehberg
Portraits GRM is a label operated in collaboration with Shelter Press and INA GRM.
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created with Editions MEGO and Peter Rehberg, the label solely focuses on the release of recent musical pieces created for and commissioned by GRM....more
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Shimmering dread and wonder...thanks, Jim. Not just for this mesmerising piece but for all the magnificent variety you've given us over the years. Truly, thank you. costello75
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“There is a quality I would use to describe something going on in the music of Kali Malone. In Living Torch, I feel what I would call “the isness of what is happening,” breaching denial, inciting acknowledgement & caring, in the midst of devastation, & holding it still.”
My full review essay at https://eliotcardinaux.wordpress.com/2024/06/05/kali-malone-living-torch/ eliotcardinaux
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This album is truly one of my favorite as it makes me think about the act of forgetting something when you don't want to. You can't control it and makes you feel miserable. This truly makes me enjoy the memories I can remember because there will be a point in time where it will be gone. tenr3d
The always killer label A Strangely Isolated Place delivers this odyssey from OKRAA, with pointillist synths and crackling beats. Bandcamp New & Notable Oct 23, 2024